"The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built."
"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles."
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Source: Quoted in Art Spiegelman and Bob Schneider, Whole Grains: A Book of Quotations (1973). Although usually attributed toWright, it was credited toWill Rogers (Tilt this country on end and everything loose will slide into Los Angeles) in the Washington Post, 17 May 1964.
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